This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hV.2ADE/1275.1279 Message Board Post: David...what a trip! I just replied to one of your posts on Jacob Bess in Missouri (where I think we are cousins on my Craddock line)...and I clicked on your posting history, to find that you had posted about Lasters in Johnson Co., AR (which is my mother's line) Did you and Freda ever decide if Minerva Laster b. 1835 in TN (according to my records) daughter of Samuel Harrison Laster & Sarah M. Baker (Sam died in Johnson Co., AR) is the one you are looking for? The Lasters and the Baskins married quite a bit in Harmony, Johnson Co., AL...my gg grandmother was Malissa Emmaline Laster, daughter of Abraham Laster & Nancy D. Puckett...Abraham was the brother of Samuel Harrison Laster! Is this her in 1880 Wayne Co MO? Census Place: Cowan, Wayne, Missouri Frances ALLEN Self F W W 50 TN Occ: Keeping House Fa: TN Mo: TN Henry ALLEN Son M S W 20 AR Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: TN Allison ALLEN Son M S W 18 AR Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: TN Mo: TN Andrew ALLEN Son M S W 14 MO Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: TN Mo: TN Sarah J. ALLEN Dau F S W 11 MO Occ: At Home Fa: TN Mo: TN I also have a Frances/Francis (sex unknown) Laster, b. 1833, child of Abraham Laster & Nancy Puckett. I'm anxious to hear if you figured out who your Laster ggg grandmother was! Barbara